Hi everyone, Odd Sock here! Do you like my wig? I'm wearing it because it's fun "#wigitup Wednesday" over on twitter today, so my twitter friends and I are all wearing silly wigs to make people smile! We've had a very busy few days here in the Top of the Wardrobe Gang! Firstly, we've been trying our best to help Melinda sort out selling different forms of our next book directly from our website, so people with any type of ebook reader should be able to get a copy. (We got there in the end, check out the "Our Kids' Books" page on our website!) Then, yesterday, Apple finally released our next book on the iBookstore! We are so excited that it is finally on sale there! Monster Poems NOW on iBooks!
Great Blog Book Review!And, entirely by coincidence, yesterday was also the day that the lovely Marilyn Panton posted her blog review (see the link below) of our new book! We hope that's a lucky omen! Guest Blogging on Chocolate!And, just when we thought we couldn't get more excited, today is the day that my twitter friend, Jeremy Bear, posted our guest blog on his chocolate review site! So we are now officially famous! (You may spot a few real members of our group below, we changed our cartoon appearances for a variety of reasons.) We did get a little concerned when PD Monkey got out a big sharp knife to tackle these yummy Lindor chocolate balls with, but, luckily, no paws were lost during the making of this review! I'd better go now, as it's nearly our bedtime!
Hope to see you soon! Love Odd Sock xxx
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Hi everyone! Odd Sock here! It seems a long time since our last post, and we've been up to many things since then, so I don't know where to start! Having shown you a picture of Bert, our "baby" troll, I'd better tell you that he is doing well, and that he thankfully continues to stay vegetarian! As you can see, he's grown VERY quickly in the few weeks that he has been with us! He is now about the same size as his late mother, so we are hoping that he will not grow much more! He seems to have a wicked sense of humour, and likes teasing us all a lot, but he is quite gentle really. Certainly not nasty and "evil", as humans seem to expect all poor trolls to be. Moving on, I should also mention that we uploaded our "Monster Poems for Monstrous Kids" book to iBooks yesterday. We will keep you posted about when it is cleared and becomes "live" on iBooks! We decided to just launch the text version first, to see how sales go before adding an audio version too. (We have purchased a proper microphone, so hope to improve the sound quality of the audio version with it. This will give us further chances to laugh at Melinda doing the recordings!) Over the last week, Melinda has also tried out the newish Amazon "Comic Creator" software, to convert our last poem book ("Our Poems for Kids") so that it can be downloaded from Amazon. Sadly, the large file size means that Amazon refuse to sell the book for less than USD$2.99. We think that is too expensive, but have, so far, managed to get the Amazon.co.uk site to "price match" the book on iBooks to make it FREE. We hope this Kindle version will eventually become free worldwide, but unfortunately cannot control Amazon's price matching decisions. In summary, we don't really like Amazon much at the moment, and find everything to do with them very confusing! We all feel very sorry for the poor people in the South of England, who have been living with terrible flooding problems for months now. Yesterday we had yet another "mini flood" disaster here, with Melinda knocking over a large glass of water. As seen above, flood victims were dried out and taken to the Under-Radiator Evacuation Point. Melinda then sorted out less important flood water issues. We can thankfully report that everyone's stuffing appears to have dried out nicely now. We are thinking about implementing "flood-containment" measures, possibly involving a washing-up bowl. And, finally, we have AT LAST added some printable colouring-in pictures to our website. Please check out the "Fun Things to do!" section. Think that's everything for now! Sending out hugs and smiles to you all! From the Top of the Wardrobe Gang! xxxxxx
Yes, we've finally finished all our drawings, and our poems have been edited, critiqued, re-edited, and read through a zillion times... So we think it is about time we declared our next book FINISHED and READY TO LAUNCH! We've decided to upload two versions of the book to the Apple iBookstore, one will include audio files. So you just click on a speaker icon for each poem verse, and you get to hear Melinda reading it out for you! We hope that Melinda will be able to borrow a Mac PC to upload both books on Saturday. Then we will have to wait for Apple to "process" them. We'll keep you posted on progress! PD here now! Yes, we've had lots of fun and we've been laughing a lot today! First we had to get Melinda to read the poem verses out while we recorded them, but we all kept pulling funny faces at her, so she kept laughing or getting the words wrong! Then, just when we'd finished rolling on the floor laughing at the audio recordings, Bert decided to make his first escape from his washing basket! We knew that moment was getting very near, as Bert is pretty big now (twice the size of poor Odd Sock, who is supposed to be looking after him!) In fact Bert has been desperately trying to escape from his basket for the last couple of days! Once out, Bert started tearing round the room like a crazy troll! Eventually we managed to calm him down and to get him to sit down. (I think he'd just worn himself out by that point.) TT and I couldn't help laughing at the sight of poor Odd chasing him around, trying to corner him! We think that Odd is now a lot more worn out than Bert. She hasn't even been on Twitter yet tonight, to say hello to her friends there! We'd better go now, it's our bedtime here in the UK. Night night everyone!
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AuthorsThe Top of the Wardrobe Gang: Oscar Rabbit, PD Monkey, Odd Sock, Burton Bear, Terry Tiger (TT), Burton Bear; helped by Melinda Kinsman Archives
October 2018
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